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Posted 2 weeks 5 days ago by Philip Brewer
Career and Income
I worked at a non-profit--a local nature center--over the summer of 1979. After we wrapped up our main task, those of us who wanted to were allowed stay on for the few weeks before we went back to college, doing things like trimming branches on the hiking trails, repainting the lines in the parking lot, and working around a very old house that was to be turned into an exhibit on settlement-era homesteads. It was work that was worth doing.
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Posted 4 weeks 16 hours ago by Philip Brewer
Career and Income
The trend toward replacing traditional employees with varying combinations of temps, contractors, outsourcing, and off-shoring is old news now. That gives us a bit of perspective to look at the situation and come up with some strategies for employees (and, increasingly, ex-employees) to deal with the situation.
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Posted 4 weeks 2 days ago by Philip Brewer
Career and Income
During the recession of 1990-1991, and the period of very slow growth that followed, it became conventional wisdom that it was wrong to try to retain key employees through a slowdown. If there was no work for an employee to do--even just for fifteen minutes--that employee should be let go.
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Posted 9 weeks 6 days ago by Philip Brewer
Career and Income
I've read a bunch of books on how to do a job search. They all talk about networking. They all talk about researching the company--knowing what they do and what they need done. They all talk about "creating" a job--presenting yourself as a solution to a problem. I read the books, but I didn't understand what they meant, until I saw this really bad movie.
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Posted 15 weeks 3 days ago by Margaret Garcia-Couoh
Career and Income
I remember being just a tad bit smug when auntie Margie exclaimed that her favorite grandson was apprenticing to fix toilets at the age of seventeen instead of getting ready for college. He'll regret it and want to go to college someday, I thought. Now, thirtysomething and 50K of a student loan left, I'm not so smug. I dream of the money I might have made as a plumber.
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Posted 30 weeks 16 hours ago by Linsey Knerl
Career Building
My husband and I are no strangers to the job hunt scene. Before he was even out of college, we were scouring the newspapers, searching the online databases, and handing out resumes to colleagues in hopes of helping him land that killer job. And while it was very frustrating that the rate of return on most job inquiries was very low, it wasn’t nearly as annoying as the slew of phony job emails that began infiltrating my husband’s email inbox.
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Posted 38 weeks 21 hours ago by Philip Brewer
Career and Income
When I was in college, I worked in the computer center. When my boss wanted to hire a new operator, he asked a couple of us to go over resumes. That experience, which gave me some insight into the way hiring managers look at things, turned out to be more useful in my career than just about anything I learned in actual classes. It also gave me a story I tell anyone who's applying for a job: The story of the dutch wife.
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Posted 40 weeks 2 days ago by Philip Brewer
Career and Income
For a worker down in the cube farm, it's easy to see the dysfunction of your own company, and to imagine that almost anyplace else would be better.
I don't have any data to back this up except my own personal experience, but I've worked at enough companies and seen enough others up close that I'm willing to go out on a limb here: All companies are dysfunctional. The thing is, they're all dysfunctional in different ways. This means that it's possible to pick an employer whose dysfunctions are ones that will bug you less. The key is to understand what it is that's really bugging you, and then to check for those particular dysfunctions at the new company.
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I recently took a class on public speaking. It's not something that I thought I needed, but it turns out that I'm a terrible public speaker. Most people are, but I always thought of myself as relatively eloquent. Turns out, it's not so much what you say, but how you say it.
The woman who was teaching our class is a voice artist with over 50 years of experience. The first thing that she taught us actually took pretty much the entire class to learn, and will probably take even longer to master. But it's so simple and important, that I felt it needed to be shared.
Own your name
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There are times when spending is the same as investing. And when it comes to putting your best face forward in a job search, you should invest in yourself.
Invest... in a resume writer.
Continue reading "When to Splurge: Resume Writer"
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